01/06/25 - His Alipay account got banned and it took him over 10 years to get it unbanned.
“What’s the darkest, most slimy thing you’ve done?
The story from a netizen:
In 12th grade, my compass [for drawing circles] broke, so I stole a classmate’s compass. She looked around for it forever and cried about it for a long time.
The second day, her mom had to trek through windy mountain roads to come to school to buy another one for her. In front of all the teachers and students, she hit her and chewed her out and she cried a lot.
Just to avoid having to get yelled at by my grandma for having to buy another one, I stole someone else’s stuff and hurt them. I’m terrible.
Since I had good grades and I was always honest, no one ever suspected me. I was guilty over it for many years. As time went on, I felt worse and worse about it and wanted to make it up to her, but she had moved away after primary school and we weren’t in contact anymore.
A couple of years ago, through all kinds of links, I managed to get back in touch again. She’s been in Shenzhen these last couple of years, never went to uni, married with two kids, her life isn’t too great.
Every year, I’d find time to take her out to eat, buy gifts for her kids, and so long as she asks for help, I always do my best to help.
But none of these actions fill in the hole I dug in my childhood.
Every time I think about it, I feel so bad. I’m always reminding myself to think first and act second.”
Comments say, “I bought a dictionary in 1st grade and made a mark in it. The very same day, a classmate stole it and wouldn’t admit to it, and I got made to stand in the naughty corner for not having a dictionary.”
“Not great Chinese there. I can’t even understand what’s going on.”
#Aerial footage of Tibet earthquake. “After the Xigaze earthquake, the Tibet Military Zone quickly engaged emergency measures and sent out command team to the affected area to organise rescue and relief efforts. The advanced tea arrived at Dingri County to learn about the situation. The first batch of 200 soldiers are going to reinforce Dingri County, while two helicopters scout from the air. Right now, 1500 people are waiting on standby, and 6 additional helicopters are ready to deploy.”
Comments say, “Where there are disasters, there’s the army of the people.”
“Everyone’s gotta be safe!”
“The army is here. Time is lives.”
“Gotta know when to stop in time.
A uni class mate of mine won 20 million dollars in Macao in 24 hours back in 2018.
As soon as he left Macau, he ripped up his travel pass and said he’d never return in his life. Then he bought himself an Audi A6 in Zhuhai and drove it all the way back to Henan. He lived in his hometown for 5 years, and in the sixth year, he couldn’t resist anymore and went back to Macau. In a week, he lost 13 million and ended up owing another 20 million. He got imprisoned there, still fed well and taken care of. His brother had to sell the mine they owned to get together the money to ransom him back.
Now they’re both living back in their hometowns like honest folk.
Nobody ever wins. Macau isn’t worried that you’ll win money. It’s only worried you won’t come anymore.”
Comments say, “First of all, Macau uses a travel pass.” [the post must be edited and in the original version, OP had wrote he tore up his passport or something.]
“Macau? Passport?”
“Made up.”
“Three years ago, my Alipay suddenly notified me that I’d received a transfer or 30,000RMB. And then I immediately got a friend request, saying that she’d transferred the money to the wrong account and asking me to transfer it back.
Was very friendly, to the point that I suspected this was some kind of scam. I had just heard at the time that there was this scam where people wire money to your card, but that wire can be cancelled within 24 hours, and then…
So I called Alipay, and customer service asked me to put in my phone number and then asked me for my payment pin. I got scared again. Why would they need to know my pin?
I couldn’t wrap my head around it and felt like the whole world was working together to scam me, so I hung up the phone.
I called my mom and asked her to come back quickly, that some group of scammers must have me in their sights.
My mom got home and immediately decided to call the cops. I called 110 and they transferred me to the police station near my house, and after coming to my place to investigate the situation, the cops had me go with them to the station.
That was my first time ever riding a police car. I was kind of nervous, worried my neighbours might think I’d done something and gotten arrested.
After recording a statement, the police asked the other party to come over to the station to make a statement too, and had me transfer the money back under body cam footage.”
Comments say, “Alipay customer service wanted your pin? That’s definitely not normal. I would’ve hung up too.”
“You dealt with it well.”
“My husband’s Alipay received 700RMB from someone. He didn’t notice the notification and didn’t know somebody had transferred money to him, and the money just stayed in his account. Later on, he was buying something on Taobao and used 10 or 20RMB out of that 700RMB when he went to pay. He had balance left over but it wasn’t enough, so his Alipay account got banned and it took him over 10 years to get it unbanned.”
“When bathhouses are no longer popular, there’s always youth hostels :D”
Comments say, “They’d only stay popular if you had to get tested for HIV and HPV upon checking in lol. The owner would have to start buying tests wholesale XD”
“But you can’t do much at a youth hostel because most people are straight.”
“Just how cheap are these hostels for one night of stay? Has anyone actually stayed who can tell me? Thanks.”
“#The first batch of PLA has arrived in the Tibet earthquake. “The PLA sure is reliable. There’s a sense of safety called “the PLA is here!””
Comments say, “China’s PLA is an army of the people!”
“This is China. Our great China.”
“Stay safe! Watch out for altitude sickness! Everyone be okay!”
#Two year old has fever in Changlong hotel and security guard refuses to hand over delivered medicine. “On the 6th of January, in Guangdong, a tourist complained that their kiddo, who was not yet two years old, suddenly burned up with a 39C fever while travelling in the Changlong Resort Area. A delivery driver brought fever reducers to the designated pick up spot outside the hotel, but the parent was stopped by a security guard when they went to pick up the medicine. The parent in question explained that the medicine was bing held at the security station over 100 metres away, which had its lights on but was empty. They had to look for over 20 minutes to find a security-guard-looking person wandering around. After explaining the situation, the security guard refused to hand the medicine over, claiming, “I don’t know you. How do I know this medicine is yours?” After being lectured by the security guard for over an hour, he finally agreed to hand over the medicine. The medicine was ordered at 9PM but it was the early morning by the time they could give it to their kid.”
Comments say, “You didn’t call the cops? And actually stood there and listened to him go on for an hour? If it was me, I would’ve started throwing punches already, if I had a kid that little, with that high of a fever, and he wouldn’t give me my medicine. I would’ve murdered him.”
“Using whatever scraps of power you have to maximally inconvenience other people, what a remarkable display of the evil of humanity.”
“You actually argued with the security guard for over an hour? Isn’t it more important to take your kid to the hospital?”
Zelenskyy shut off the natural gas pipeline that’s Russia’s lifeline, which earns 50 billion USD A year. Finland has completely surrounded Russia’s ghost oil fleet, and cut off the other lifeline that Russia uses to sustain the war.
Putin now faces several difficult choices:
Accept an embarrassing end to the war with Ukraine.
Bleed out the Russian economy even more.
Declare war on Finland.”
Comments say, “If I remember correctly, didn’t all of Europe freeze in that winter several years ago?” [This was a meme going around the Chinese internet back when the Russia-Ukraine war first started, that NATO isn’t going to dare to give Ukraine any aid because Russia will cut off Europe’s energy and everybody will freeze.”
“Finland’s already a part of NATO. Do they really dare to declare war on Finland?”
“Good job, Finland!”
“Had a fight over this bowl of noodles. I’m female, from the south, my husband is a northerner. Every time I make noodles, he said he has to run an errand outside. Is there really that much of a difference between north and south?”
A compilation of comments: “Hand-made noodles > machine-made noodles > instant noodles > staying hungry > Somen.” [The cheapest noodles on the market, known for either being completely raw or completely boiled to death and soft within a single microsecond.]
“Agreed! I like to eat al dente noodles.”
“If I had to work all day just to come home and eat somen, I would feel like my whole life was over.”
“In my 30 years of life, I’ve never had home-made noodles.”
“Welcome to Shanxi, a paradise of carbs.”
“I could go without for a month at most.”
“Somen just isn’t good without a good marinade. But if you have a good marinade, you’re wasting it on somen.”
“Accurate. If you have any energy at all, you wouldn’t eat somen, like that’s only for fuck off days.”
“I’d rather make instant noodles than somen. No matter how I make it, there’s something lacking.”
“Cook it for a while and it’s still raw. Cook it for a second longer, and it’s falling apart in your bowl.”
“I don’t dislike the somen in the video. I hate the flat ones like this.”
“I actually love these noodles.”
“Me too. This is the only kind of noodles I eat.”
“If I worked all day to come home to these noodles, my life would be over.”
“Why?”
“In the north, somen is only for when you don’t have time to cook and you’re just trying to throw something together. It’s just awful.”
“It’s literally worse than instant noodles.”
“Girl, it’s not his fault. You gotta understand, I’m never on men’s side, but as a Dongbei native, I really can’t stand you mixing Lao Gan Ma [hot sauce with ground beef kernels in it, known for being something cheap poor people and international students use to stay alive on] with somen T_T Like what is the point to life anymore? If I worked all day to come home to this, I would want to die.”
“So this is what you eat when you’re just trying to stay alive?”
“If you put this next to a dry brick of instant noodles, I’d rather eat the dry brick.”
“It’s not a northern southern issue, girl. You eat noodles like this? You couldn’t even thinly slice some cucumbers? Just a bowl of plain noodles with some Lao Gan Ma?”
“I eat all my plain broth noodles like this. If it’s not salty enough, I’ll add in a little bit of soy sauce.”
“This is precisely a northern southern issue, baby.”
“It’s not that complicated. I just make it how I like to eat it. I make spinach and egg noodles too. It’s all up to my mood. Spinach egg noodles, spinach sausage noodles, hotpot meatball noodles, I put whatever I have in the fridge in.”
“This is what noodles are like, baby!”
“That’s eating noodles for the sake of noodles. Southern Jiao Tou is way better. [浇头, specifically the spoonful of sauce you splash over your food at the very end of cooking.]”
“The north has plenty of Jiao Tou too.”
”That doesn’t look very tasty to me. It’s not spicy or fragrant. I feel like you’re just eating it for the noodle themselves.”
“Hand-made noodles > machine-made noodles > instant noodles > staying hungry > literal dog food > somen.”
“Handmade noodles should be in the second to last place. It’s only a little better than staying hungry.”
“Lol, then your family sucks at making handmade noodles. I love my mom’s handmade noodles, but she hates having to make it. Every time she makes it, she chews me out for 2 hours T_T”
“Lao Gan Ma with somen?? That’s what I ate when I was little and there weren’t any adults at home and I was on the verge of starving to death.”
“When I was little, my family always made noodles with just the noodles themselves plus lard, sesame oil, salt, and MSG, to the point where I always hated noodles. It was only after I had some in school and in society that I learned there were so many tasty noodles in this world…”
“If there were no adults at home and I was on the verge of starvation, I’d rather eat a dry package of instant noodles.”
“I’ve literally passed out from low blood sugar and never even considered the somen in the pantry.”
“You’ll never understand what it’s like for me, a Sha’anxi native, to find a noodle shop in Sanya just for it to turn out to be a lump of somen.”
“I totally get you, man. I went on a business trip to Anhui and found a noodle shop and it was somen too. And the owner kept trying to chat me up and ask me if it was good. And he even asked where I was from.”
“Why would you not get some Ban Mian while you’re in Anhui? [extra broad noodles cut with a literal ruler] What were you thinking?”
“Don’t you have to go to Hebei to find truly authentic Anhui Ban Mian? You can’t find that in Anhui.”
“Hand-made noodles > machine-made noodles > instant noodles > skip two meals > somen.”
“You can make instant noodles for northerns and they wouldn’t mind, but if you cook somen, then…”
“While under lockdown from covid, there were a lot of people hoarding instant noodles, but nobody was buying the somen.”
“I don’t get it. Before I started going to school in Dongbei, aside from Lanzhou la’mian, I’ve never had hand-made noodles. I’ve only ever ate somen and I don’t mind it.”
“Northernes, you’ll never understand the texture of proper home-made noodles. Noodles are only good and chewy when they’re handmade T_T”
“No marinade, no sauce, no veggies, not even some shredded cucumbers. If you don’t know how to make noodles, you can buy a fresh package. But you chose to boil somen in plain water and mix it with Lao Gan Ma. It’s not that he won’t eat noodles. It’s that you’re too flippant.”
“Don’t ask why northerners won’t eat somen. Just ask around, which noodle shop in the north would dare to sell Somen.”